The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-26

xK8 WEST.
II WAS stated in Kansas City on the 18th
that plans were fully prepared for thu
] building Of nosth and south railroad from
that city to Sabine pass. ON the Gulf Of
| Mexico The work would be done BY ~
entirely new company Of Eaatern capital
| lists.
TIE bids which were invited for the re
pair Of the marine docks 1t Mare Island,
Cal, have been found to be in excess Of the
appropriation made for the purpose and
further action has been postponed until
next spring.
A PATTY Of cowboys, in search Of miss
ing ranchmsn at Tonic basin, near Albu.
querque, n n, recently called at house
where . family named Tewksbury lived.
As the party vas leaving the place, after
| fruitless inquiries, the Tewksburys fred on
them and killed three. Another party was
being formed to avenge the murder and
much bloodshed was feared.
In one of the recent fights bctweeen Shcr-
il Kendairs posse and the White river
hostiles, il was reported, Colorow's son
Eeny was killed. The killing Of the young
chief excited the Indians, and the safety OF
400 women and children at Meeker was
endangered. LReinforcements were hurry
ing 10 the scene OF hostilities on the 10th,
but the situation was critical
An attempt to wreck . trains0f the Ohio
e. Aississippl at East st. Louis recently
was frustrated by Special Police Officer
Clancy, who discovered that q frog had
been tempered with.
SHERIFF CHARLES LYNCH, Of Alpena, died
the other morning ut the Detroit sanitari-
UNI from q shot wound IN the leg, inflicted
by the notorious "Blinkey" Morgan
Lynch planned and carried out the scheme
to capture "Blinkey" and the others al
legged to be the murderers Of Detective Hull
ligan. Of Cleveland. His murderer is now
in Jail at Ravenna, o.
MRS. JOSIE NEwKIRK, Of East st. Louis,
was arrested the ether day for forging q
receipt aud obtaining possession Of regis
tered letter, addressed to Mrs. James Cor
don. She was taken before Commissioner
Crawford, at Springfield, and held in 8, 900
bond to await the action Of the grand jury.
An Atlas. II. T., special says: 1.-THE Flat
head council has decided TO reject the
prayers OF sixty half breed Crees in re-
bellion with Riel and now refugees for
homes among them. The Pen d'Oreille,
Koutenais and Flatheads Join in the de-
cision."
TuB property Of the French Boys Mining
Company, located in King Solomou's noun
tains, in San Juan County, Col, was sold at
auctien ut the Real Estate Exchange, New
York, recently, to b. L. Colnan for e., 700.
It was said that $500 100 had been sunk in
the property by credulous investors.
CHARLES MCEvER, aged ten, living in
haywood, ILL.,, was shot and killed the other
day while shooting at q mark.
L. G. HILL, of Richmond, Ind, has beer
elected President Of the National Florists
Association.
A TORNADO struck Republican City, Neb.,
on the evening Of the eth, doing much dam
age and killing two men ami injuring five
others.
CHARLES PARKER, who robbed Paymaster
Bash of SOU at Hays Springs. Wyo., last
February, has been captureG. He was ar
rested in Logan County, Neb., after max
ing desperate resistance.
AT Nsperville, Ill, the other morning,
two stock trains on the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy were in collision. The acct
dent was due to Q fog. Four cars Of cattle
and hogs were smashed and the animals
killed. One os tho engineers was seriously
but not fatally injured.
THE coroner's jury in the Chatsworth,
Ill, railroad disaster, brought in q verdict
throwing the blame on Timothy Coughlin,
foreman Of section Z, and virtually exoner-
ting tho railroad company.
THE Chicago express on the Cleveland T.
Pittsburgh road jumped the track at Bay
ard station. near Alliance, O., the other
morning, wrecking one sleeper. The col
ored porter was killed and three other per-
sons were serlously wounded.
A THIRTY foot grindstone in Butcher &
Gibbs pillow works, at Canton, O., burst
the other day, killing Henry Pshsen, an
employee.
REUBEN P. CLEMENT, the Leavenworth,
Kan, defaulter, has been heard from in
Canada He expressed, in letter to q
friend, his sorrow for going wrong and
promised to do better.
AT the reunion Of the Efghty-seventh
Illinois veterans at Enfield, ILL.,, on the 18th
two premature cannon explosions took
place. Two men had their arms blown of
and four others were fearfully burned.
THE annual meeting of the National Press
which was to have been held
in Denver, September 6. has been post
poned because Of the impossibility to Sc
cure rates.
THE SOUTH.
A DISPATCH from Huntsville, Ala, Of the
10th says: The freight conductors of the
Memphis & Charleston road struck to-day
for higher wages. No freight trains are
running.
Ex-GovRRNoR LUXE P. BLACKBURN, of
was reported dying at Frankfort
on the 10th.
The official returns of the recent Ken
lucky election give Buckncr, Democrat,
1908 plurality over Bradley, Republican.
DURING fight in Mount Sterling, KY,
Monday, four friends OF q prisoner were
wounded by the marshal or each other.
RY the falling 0H Of lanGn;ohod